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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Nordea’s divestment, along with pressure from other institutions, such as Norwegian pension fund KPL, led to a pledge from JBS to use blockchain to monitor its entire supply chain by 2025, including the problematic "indirect suppliers" that have been linked to illegal deforestation. Still, these particular investors weren’t satisfied. .

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Recovered paper market faces perfect storm, says Recycling Association chief

Envirotec Magazine

The most glaring example is the crash of October 2008 when prices fell to nothing, but eventually recovered. “Indeed, The Recycling Association has pioneered our TRACA blockchain project that will provide the supply chain with quality and compliance information. “As an industry, we have ridden similar challenges before.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. . Back to normal is not an option. History has shown us that government funding of visionary projects can have enormous positive outcomes.

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Grid Edge Innovation Summit 2020: IBM’s Brad Gammons on Utility Digitalization in the Age of Decarbonization

GreenTechMedia

federal energy infrastructure and modernization recovery funds in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. These are just two examples at the edge of the grid, but we follow the whole value chain.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks. Company profile.

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Brazilian Meat Giant JBS a Bigger Emitter Than Italy, Study Estimates

DeSmogBlog

million hectares in its indirect supply chain, since 2008. To prove the company is reducing its environmental impact, JBS also cites the development of blockchain technology to reduce deforestation by improving the traceability of cattle in its Brazilian supply chain, and its adoption of methane-reducing feed additives. .

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

AGreenLiving

Nordea’s divestment, along with pressure from other institutions, such as Norwegian pension fund KPL, led to a pledge from JBS to use blockchain to monitor its entire supply chain by 2025, including the problematic “indirect suppliers” that have been linked to illegal deforestation.